Some years ago, I used to play EA's Battlefield 4 a lot. This game has a enjoying mode called "Conquest Large", which is basically a Capture the Flag between two teams made of squads, and each squad has a leader. Capturing the objective flag pointed by the leader rewards the squad.

The both teams have points, and the more captured flags it has, more its points increases.

In other words, capturing the flag is not exactly the goal, but maintaining the flags.

I think this is true for real life as well. Conquest is not enough if not maintained.

Life is a game of patience and strategy. Seasonal fights are generally unwise, the flags that lasts generations are what really worth. But at same time, lifetime is short and there are objectives that requires more than a lifetime to be conquered.

Here enters the next generation, one of the most expensive investments, but literally game-changer. If you do it right, your forces will be multiplied. If you do it wrong, it'll be too late for extra chances.

Preparing your children for the next round of this game is about maintaining and capturing flags. It's about accumulating the points without resetting on every player.

The maintenance period is not forever, but hopefully it should take all your lifetime. If all have think this way, the thing will go far.

But things die, and everything has a end. The end could be in the immediate next generation, or after three aligned generations. But either way, one and half lifetime periods is better than one.

I'm lucky to have my father still alive, it's the chance to do it right.

Because before to try fix the world, we need to fix ourself, so the first step is valuing the past flags, the essence that made our parents work so hard through all their years. With a solid and intentional past, we get stronger, and more likely to get our flags carried forth by the next ones.

Probably the father has a lot of flags, some maintained under control and others left aside, so it's important to decide the priorities and outline a strategy, because you — the next carrier — has your own priorities, and some of him may need to be left behind. But that's OK, we can't do everything.

And now with the squad leader objectives, your conquest will get some extra points, your past assurances it. And it's the minimal cost of getting your flags maintained in the next generation.

You're now valuing your father's sweat and building on top of it. Giving him the power to influence and decide part of the future, fruit of your hands.

More values, goals and responsibilities may seem a unwanted burden, but it's part of the process of accumulating freedom and power. An aid against the energy waste of walking in circles, and a precious hope to achieve and maintain what your lifetime doesn't allows.

Otherwise, we depend on unknown thirds, forced to abandon the glory of the past and move towards urban areas to get enslaved for some money, as our ancestors did.

Please, do not let go of your essence. This direction is dark, may have no return once you enter it. Without the past, we're floating foam blocks in the cold sea of present.

This is a free-writing reflection, intending to clarify my values and intended behavior. A succession of reflection about suiciding the own ancestor tree.

This is a recalculation of the routes, because despite wanting this for me, I never did my part.

Now it's time to face the facts. Hypocrisy is a form of moral corruption that no one respects, neither own sons and daughters.